PENNY- A -WORD CABLES PREDICTED.
CABLE JUNGS. AND.RI^GS
• -.?■ (Received Junfe 4, 12.30 p.m.) I " . FREMANTLE, June 4. ■ ..Sir Hcnniker Heaton is on a health" !trip. He is confident that m time' tl:e ruling cable rate of the world will be twelve words for a shilling. He desires the Governments of Australia and .New Zealand to co-operate with him to that lend. He trusts they will not make tin a a, party question. .The main difficulty is the mountain of vested interests. Cable kings anQ rings, he said, had seized the God-given gift of electricity and devoted it to the solo use of millionaires to the exclusion of the' millions. Three hundred million Word 3 can be telegraphed to America annually, but only twenty million were transmitted. They* keep the cables idle inofdei 1 to maintain the shilling-a-word rate?. The lines to Australia were capable ot transmitting fifty million words yearly, but only five million were sent." : ' '"■
"I would," he said, "natidnalis© ■tho cables, giving the companies a fair price." '■•■' "■
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13092, 4 June 1913, Page 3
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